One is the size of a football stadiumt.
A video NASA released on Wednesday shows the debris caused by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission spacecraft slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos. / Joseph DePasquale )earlier this month.
NASA’s Asteroid Watch dashboard, which tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth, currently lists five asteroids, one of which the space agency deliberately crashed a spacecraft into in September 2022. The asteroids vary in size with the smallest being the size of a car while the biggest one, namedNASA recently published footage from the September 2022 mission in which their spacecraft crashed into the massive asteroid known as Dimorphos.
This footage, posted by NASA in September 2022, shows the Double Asteroid Redirection Test which purposefully impacted on Dimorphos in order to move it. It was thein the world to trial technology that would protect Earth from potential asteroid collisions. The car-sized asteroid will come the closest to Earth at approximately 76,900 miles while the largest asteroid is recorded to have its closes Earth approach set at 4.1 million miles.
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